Change history

This document contains change notes for bugfix & new features in the 5.0.x series, please see whatsnew-5.0 for an overview of what's new in Celery 5.0.

5.0.0

release-date: 2020-09-24 6.00 P.M UTC+3:00
release-by: Omer Katz

Breaking Change Remove AMQP result backend (#6360).
Warn when deprecated settings are used (#6353).
Expose retry_policy for Redis result backend (#6330).
Prepare Celery to support the yet to be released Python 3.9 (#6328).

5.0.0rc3

release-date: 2020-09-07 4.00 P.M UTC+3:00
release-by: Omer Katz

More cleanups of leftover Python 2 support (#6338).

5.0.0rc2

release-date: 2020-09-01 6.30 P.M UTC+3:00
release-by: Omer Katz

Bump minimum required eventlet version to 0.26.1.
Update Couchbase Result backend to use SDK V3.
Restore monkeypatching when gevent or eventlet are used.

5.0.0rc1

release-date: 2020-08-24 9.00 P.M UTC+3:00
release-by: Omer Katz

Allow to opt out of ordered group results when using the Redis result backend (#6290).
Breaking Change Remove the deprecated celery.utils.encoding module.

5.0.0b1

release-date: 2020-08-19 8.30 P.M UTC+3:00
release-by: Omer Katz

Breaking Change Drop support for the Riak result backend (#5686).
Breaking Change pytest plugin is no longer enabled by default (#6288). Install pytest-celery to enable it.
Breaking Change Brand new CLI based on Click (#5718).

5.0.0a2

release-date: 2020-08-05 7.15 P.M UTC+3:00
release-by: Omer Katz

Bump Kombu version to 5.0 (#5686).

5.0.0a1

release-date: 2020-08-02 9.30 P.M UTC+3:00
release-by: Omer Katz

Removed most of the compatibility code that supports Python 2 (#5686).
Modernized code to work on Python 3.6 and above (#5686).